4:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
Up next, well explore the case of LDaijohnique Lee, a Black woman, who was charged with criminal mischief, after she defended herself from a racist attack in Dallas. This appears to be another disturbing trend in the nation, where Black people are being verbally and violently assaulted by white folks.and once the police are called … Continued
Up next a forum on Reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans.
Davey D speaks with author Aya De Leon about her new book, sex workers, Puerto Rico and more.
We speak with former Black Panther and political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahhad who is living in Ghana about the crises in Sudan. He gives us a historical, geo-political breakdown of what is going on there and why.
And again, you’re tuned to Hard Knock on the Pacifica, I’m Anita Johnson…and this week I sat down with SOL Development’s Karega Bailey to discuss music, education, love, Blackness and cultural identity. SOL Development is being touted as the new group to champion…out of the West Coast. The four-person collective’s sound has been described as jazz, … Continued
we speak with Reverend Ph.D, Miguel De La Torre about the arrest of activists for attempting to aid border migrants and we look at America’s ongoing war of disenfranchised populations.
Davey D speaks with Hip Hop pioneer and filmmaker Fab 5 Freddy about the history of marijuana, the racist drug laws aimed at Jazz musicians and Blacks and his documentary Grass Is Greener.
We speak with Chris Chapman about African American male achievement and the new film Wheels by director Paul Starkman. Wheels will premier at the San Francisco Black Film Festival this week.
We capture some of the speeches made this weekend at Fruitvale Bart about the Oscar Grant Mural. Later on we speak with filmmaker Yoav Potash about the film Crime After Crime. We speak with Sara Kruzan of Uncommon Law.
Davey D speaks with Rocky Rivera about her new album and much more.
